I'll start by saying everyone is alright, luckily - asside from the guy's bike.
We decided to go for a ride through the canyons yesterday as it was quite nice out. 3 of us are on CBRs, 2 600RRs and a 1000RR, but out 4th friend is a bit too short for a CBR and had to get a Ninja 500 which is an alright bike but was certainly not made for the typical canyon riding we do.
Basically we were up in the canyon and had just started on our way down the other side and in the first hard turn, the guy in front of my with the ninja scraped peg a little bit and freaked out and fell over and started sliding. He jumped off as he got to the edge of the road and was just scratched up from sliding on the ground (luckily not badly because he was wearing gear) but his bike was not so fortunate. The bike continued to slide into a tree right off the edge of the road, which I suppose is better than if he had slid early and it could have ended up falling off the small cliff that was right there as well.
Luckily I was a safe distance behind and did not have a problem in the turn, but it did suck seeing a fellow rider down as I stopped after the turn to help him. We were also pretty lucky a few people came by at the time and one of which took him home since the bike was not rideable and I had a passenger at the time. Sucks his bike pretty much got ruined and it was only a few months old, but we were lucky that no one was hurt.
We decided to go for a ride through the canyons yesterday as it was quite nice out. 3 of us are on CBRs, 2 600RRs and a 1000RR, but out 4th friend is a bit too short for a CBR and had to get a Ninja 500 which is an alright bike but was certainly not made for the typical canyon riding we do.
Basically we were up in the canyon and had just started on our way down the other side and in the first hard turn, the guy in front of my with the ninja scraped peg a little bit and freaked out and fell over and started sliding. He jumped off as he got to the edge of the road and was just scratched up from sliding on the ground (luckily not badly because he was wearing gear) but his bike was not so fortunate. The bike continued to slide into a tree right off the edge of the road, which I suppose is better than if he had slid early and it could have ended up falling off the small cliff that was right there as well.
Luckily I was a safe distance behind and did not have a problem in the turn, but it did suck seeing a fellow rider down as I stopped after the turn to help him. We were also pretty lucky a few people came by at the time and one of which took him home since the bike was not rideable and I had a passenger at the time. Sucks his bike pretty much got ruined and it was only a few months old, but we were lucky that no one was hurt.
